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Summary
A Gilded Age heiress. An unhealed wound. A family she never knew she had.

"I don’t believe in ghosts. The living are scary enough."

For seventeen-year-old Lana Goodwin, senior year at the posh Briar School for Girls is not going exactly how she hoped. It’s bad enough her dad used to be married to the head of the board—the rich, beautiful, and cruel Ramona Crawford. It’s even worse that she’s stuck going to school with her former stepsister Cressida, who never misses an opportunity to make her life hell. And don’t even get her started on her long-distance relationship with her new boyfriend, who may be hiding something from her.

It also happens to be the tenth anniversary of her mother’s suicide. No one knows why Annie Goodwin jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge the day after Christmas. She didn’t leave a note. She wasn’t sick. Even Lana’s father can’t explain it.

But now, there’s just one semester left, and she’s free. She’s desperate to get to college and never look back—if she can somehow keep her GPA high enough for a scholarship. Her divorced dad’s struggling car business is about to tank, so paying for college tuition is out of the question.

Then, strange events start happening. Objects move by themselves. Letters arrive addressed to someone with her mother’s maiden name. A psychic tells her someone is trying to contact her—to make amends for the past.

Lana soon discovers that someone else knows the truth about her mother’s identity. Before it’s too late, Lana must piece together the long-buried secrets her mother hid from her and claim her birthright—before her future, and her life, are snatched away.

Set in California’s Sonoma Valley, Valley of the Moon is a modern-day fairy tale with romance, some intense themes, and a ghost or two.